Teamviewer News & Articles

There’s a new TeamViewer. Version 8 of the popular remote control and online meetings software offers enhanced performance, additional capabilities and, for enterprises, a new Management Console.

While many of us may take remote computer access for granted, a new survey reminds us that it’s not undervalued. Teamviewer’s May 2011 survey of more than 2,000 Americans, conducted by Harris Interactive, revealed that remote computer access is an important priority for Americans.

For a company like TeamViewer, having multiple devices from which to communicate with each other is expected. But how many of us actually have multiple devices? And to what degree do we rely on them? Thanks to a survey commissioned by TeamViewer and conducted by Harris Interactive, they found that 63% of Americans say they use at least two computing devices on a weekly basis. Overall, 30% said they are now using more computing devices than in any prior year.

Most of us are familiar with TeamViewer (news, site), which provides remote access for companies and individuals. And while we may use it to help train employees or clients remotely, or give presentations to multiple people at the same time, do we really understand the impact it’s had on productivity within the enterprise and beyond?

Since the iPad release, many new apps have made their way onto the market, some useful, others in the novelty category of apps we could do without. However, the newly released iPad app from TeamViewer (news, site) falls into the' very useful' category for businesses and private users as it gives them the ability to control remote PC’s from the iPad.

Remote access and support company TeamViewer (news, site) gets Linux friendly with its latest update.

Naturally, as the increasingly remote nature of our interactions becomes more apparent, the number of vehicles that enable it grows exponentially. One such tool is video conferencing, and the latest to add it to their bucket of desktop communication solutions is TeamViewer GmbH (news, site).

Expansion, expansion, expansion. There are tons of ways companies can achieve it, but TeamViewer’s most recent method of choice is of the multilingual variety.

The desktop sharing software, which was already available in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, and Danish, has added six new languages to the family: Turkish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish and Japanese.

Standards, standards and more standards…This time we bring you news from the W3C Web API Working Group. They have published their Working Draft of “Progress Events 1.0”.

Progress Events are event types used to monitor the progress of an operation. If you develop applications using XMLHTTPRequest or Media Access Events, then you need to understand how the progress events are being defined.

With newly necessary (?) solutions like Twitter-style feeds for the enterprise and blogging solutions for CEOs-cum-blogebrities, it seems the collaboration craze can’t get anymore intimate in the white collar setting.

Oh, but it just has. In an act of generosity of which we thought only Google capable, Germany-based TeamViewer has just rendered its remote desktop software — a paid service, up to this point — totally free for private users.

What does this mean? It means your colleagues can be closer than friends. They can be inside your desktop. They can play with your data while you watch in helpless unease.

But the good news is, you can play with theirs too.

Packt, the publisher of many a useful CMS book, announces an official quest for “The Best Open Source CMS” and an according, annual set of prizes around the “Packt Open Source CMS” yearly winners.